Love lessons I learned from 'Brown Sugar'
Taking cues from romantic comedies like 'Brown Sugar' and applying them to your real love life is always a risky proposition.
Taking cues from romantic comedies and applying them to your real love life is always a risky proposition. After all, can you really expect things in real life to play out the same way they do in movies?
Well, yeah, you can. That’s the great thing about living! But if you’re not careful you could end up emulating idealistic behavior and circumstance based on a work of fiction. Ultimately you end up using real life to imitate art without the multi-million dollar backing of a Hollywood production to make sure your story has a happy ending.
Imagine the scores of middle-aged women who booked flights to the Carribbean to get their groove back, inspired by Terry McMillan’s novel and the resulting film, only to be struck with the post-happy ending reality: Stella’s “groove” is actually better suited for something closer to a Steve.
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